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Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a...
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Jaroslav Pokorný, Lucie Zárybnická, Radek ?evcík and Lubo? Podolka
Plastics represent an integral part of our everyday lives, with various functions from packaging materials to insulation layers in our buildings. Pure expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a good example of a fully recyclable material. However, once polluted wit...
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Hamid Maljaee, António Santos Silva and Ana Velosa
The popularity of natural cement (Roman cement) in buildings from the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and the high diversity of characteristics of natural cement demand research of mortar and binders used in the buildings of this period i...
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Nara Cangussu, Ana Mafalda Matos, Paula Milheiro-Oliveira and Lino Maia
The mixture design of cement-based materials can be complex due to the increasing number of constituent raw materials and multiple requirements in terms of engineering performance and economic and environmental efficiency. Designing experiments based on ...
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Slawomir Czarnecki, Adrian Chajec, Seweryn Malazdrewicz and Lukasz Sadowski
This paper predicts the abrasion resistance of a cementitious composite containing granite powder and fly ash replacing up to 30% of the cement weight. For this purpose, intelligent artificial neural network (ANN) models were used and compared. A databas...
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Rabeb Ayed, Salwa Bouadila, Safa Skouri, Laura Boquera, Luisa F. Cabeza and Mariem Lazaar
By enhancing the thermal properties of cement-based building materials, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions related to space conditioning in buildings can be alleviated. This study aims to present cement-based composites reinforced by t...
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Thais Theomaris Grabowski, Juliana Martins Teixeira de Abreu Pietrobelli and Ramiro José Espinheira Martins
This study aimed to investigate the technical feasibility of replacing cement in mortar production with sludge generated in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), prepared using different treatments. The sludge used in the experiments was processed using f...
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Masood Ur Rahman and Jing Li
This paper presents experimental investigations on epoxy mortar produced using industrial wastes. In some recent studies, coal bottom ash and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste have been chosen as a filler to replace sand, and fly ash and silica fume...
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Barrie Dams, Binling Chen, Paul Shepherd and Richard J. Ball
Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods in the construction industry typically employ ground-based deposition methods. An alternative to transform the role of AM in construction is to introduce an aerial capability. A recent project titled Aerial Additive Ma...
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Kiran Kumar Poloju, Shalini Annadurai, Ram Kishore Manchiryal, Mallikarjuna Rao Goriparthi, Prabu Baskar, Mayakrishnan Prabakaran and Jongpil Kim
Concrete is a versatile construction material used along with a reinforcement. Concrete is made up of binder materials and aggregates. Cement is a primary binder material used to produce conventional concrete. Carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere a...
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